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Here are two seemingly unrelated facts:

1. Comedienne Ellen DeGeneres and her girlfriend Portia de Rossi will get married in California this weekend.

2. One of the platform planks for the Democrats at this year's convention…

     Anytime a journalist invokes the name of the late economist Milton Friedman, and doesn’t bash him, it is worthy of praise.

     CNBC “Squawk Box” fill-in co-host Michelle Caruso-Cabrera did just that. The comment came in an…

     Perhaps Charles Gibson was trying to vent on behalf of Americans paying higher prices at the pump. In an interview about record oil company profits August 13 on “World News,” Gibson pressed ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson on…

     The economic downturn has even affected the prettiest people – or those who aspire to be, according to CNN’s “American Morning” August 13.

     “With people cutting corners – there’…

     It is not unusual for nations hosting the Olympic Games to orchestrate a false charm for visiting athletes and spectators, and most of all for the media. This typically extends to covering up graffiti and chasing the homeless from the…

     It was 1979. Sony introduced its Walkman, the Garfield comic debuted and Margaret Thatcher became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. That same year, musicians Jackson Browne, Carly Simon, Bruce Springsteen and others…

      Although he didn’t have a winning track record in presidential elections, 1972 Democratic presidential nominee and former South Dakota Sen. George McGovern had no problem critiquing the media for lack of substance.

     McGovern,…

     There’s a huge concern among conservative talk radio hosts that reinstatement of the Fairness Doctrine would all-but destroy the industry due to equal time constraints. But speech limits might not stop at radio. They…

    It’s not often that you can point to The Washington Post as the voice of reason, but the paper has its moments. One such was the August 12 oil drilling editorial that debunks three major “‘truths’ masquerading as fact” about…

     In spite of the media’s obsession with global warming, only 25 percent of Americans view climate change as the world’s biggest environmental threat, according to a new ABC News poll. Fewer than half – 47 percent – viewed…

     The mainsteam media continue to ignore the pro-oil-drilling protest by the House GOP. But Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind., and one of the leaders of the protest, says it doesn’t matter.

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     For decades, some on the left have decried the rise of the suburbs for everything from their impact on decentralizing big municipal governments to the impact longer commutes have on community and the environment. However, suburbs could be…

     It’s probably par for the course with this duo, but liberal MSNBC “Countdown” host Keith Olbermann and Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson rejected the view that the Republican congressional protest was having any impact.

     How do you make the foreclosure crisis seem even scarier? Add in a potentially deadly virus.

     CBS’s “The Early Show,” reported August 7 that a new stronger strain of the West Nile virus could spread across the country with help…

     It bothers some in the media that presumptive GOP presidential nominee Sen. John McCain, Ariz., has continued to ridicule his opponent’s suggestion that properly inflated tires “could save all the oil that they’re talking…

     Perhaps the near monopoly NBC will enjoy in broadcasting the Summer Olympics from China beginning August 8 has encouraged the network to be more kind to struggling American businesses.

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     The high price of gas has driven down demand. Now politicians like Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty are worried gas taxes might not be able to fund infrastructure projects.

     Pawlenty…